Option network_mode: host in docker compose file not working as expected

I wonder why people who aim their compose.yml for docker-compose are using the v3.x format.
The v2.x format is intended for docker-compose and v3.x is intended for swarm stack deployments…

network: host was introduced in version 2.2 of the docker compose specification:

Docker on Windows is a whole different breed. I have no idea what does and does not work for windows. It is just odd to see that a majority of the topics of the last days was Windows related…